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Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
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The Cross Unites
Paul's questions, "Was Paul crucified for you?" and "Were you baptized in the name of Paul?", are designed to refocus believers on the exclusive and all-sufficient work of Jesus. Commentators stress that our shared salvation through Christ's cross and our common allegiance to Him in baptism are the ultimate unifiers, making divisions based on human leaders illogical and ungrateful.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Is Christ divided? Paul, in this verse, proceeds to show the impropriety of their divisions and strife. His general argument is that Chris…
Is Christ divided? (μεμεριστα ο Χριστοσ; ). Perfect passive indicative, Does Christ stand divided? It is not certain, though proba…
19th Century
Anglican
Is Christ divided?—Better, Christ is divided. Christ, in the communion of the Church, is rent, torn in fragments…
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Baptist
For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this…
Paul quickly destroys the validity of such distinctions by insisting that Christians are all one in Christ. “Is Christ divided?” he asks. He shows …
16th Century
Protestant
Is Christ divided? This intolerable evil resulted from the divisions that existed among the Corinthians, for Christ alone must reign in th…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Is Christ divided ? &c.] Some read the words as an assertion, "Christ is divided"; that is, his body, the church, is…
In the great things of religion, be of one mind; and where there is not unity of belief, still let there be union of affection. Agreement in the gr…
13th Century
Catholic
After the greeting, the Apostle begins to instruct them. First, he instructs them about matters concerning all of them generally, namely, the sacra…
